ChatGTP says, "The book you are referring to is likely "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster. This novella was published in 1909 and is set in a future where people live in individual rooms, connected to a global network that provides them with all their needs. The machines that run the network have become so efficient that people no longer need to learn or do anything for themselves. As a result, they have become isolated, shallow, and dependent on the network. When the network starts to break down, the characters are unable to cope and must face the consequences of their reliance on the machines."

I don’t think it was called that, but maybe I read it as a retelling of sorts. It was a book probably from the sixties or seventies but it’s possible!

Possibly Player Piano?

There's also A Logic Named Joe, but that's more about ChatGPT sans RLHF.

Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck. The artist made some incredible automata and kinetic sculptures and it's a documentary that I've watched again and again to get ideas for my own works.

There's been quite a bit of tremor activity in the last month. I don't know if it is a change from before, but over the last month (2021-04-01 - 2021-05-06) basically everything west of I-5 from Portland, OR to Redding, CA has had deep tremors.

https://pnsn.org/tremor?starttime=2021-04-01T00:00:00&endtim...

Love it. Thanks for posting!

Are attitude indicators or gyroscopes used as as inputs to automated systems? Or are only external sensors used?

I've been hosting my own wiki based on Use Mod Wiki since the late 90's. I'm still using it everyday.

I'm getting this using s3cmd:

$ s3cmd ls WARNING: Retrying failed request: / ([Errno 60] Operation timed out) WARNING: Waiting 3 sec... WARNING: Retrying failed request: / ([Errno 60] Operation timed out) WARNING: Waiting 6 sec...

A robot with a self-cleaning feature would make me more likely to use it.

> A robot with a self-cleaning feature would make me more likely to use it.

Or better yet, a house-cleaning feature (male or female).

For a sarcastic view on the concept, check out "Robot Girl" by Was (not Was)... here's an SNL performance from 1989.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03LVC_r9gJE

(RG starts at about 1:45)

This would be a killer app on Google Glass.

This is actually only a stepping stone to prepare people for possible 24/7 Glass surveillance.

Anyone notice the triangle of people floating in the empty space at the southwestern corner of San Francisco near Lake Merced? That appears to be the Olympic Club golf course. Do people actually list the golf course as their home address on their census forms?

There's a park near me that appears to have several hundred or thousand Asian people living in it. I'm not sure how accurate this data is...

The data isn't accurate to address, it's to some area, a little larger. I forget what. But the dots are randomly distributed in that area.